Everyone has their own '80s cartoon franchise that meant something to them, and mine was ThunderCats: The Rankin/Bass series followed of a race of humanoid felines from the planet Thundera, forced to evacuate after their home comes under siege by the fearsome Mutants of Plun-Darr (who looked a bit like reptilian Ernest Borgnines.)

While pitchers are throwing perfect games at the south end of Chicago, those guys in the north are still trying to figure out those tricky baseball hats. We already knew they could be a little crazy at times, and their hygiene may be of question at times, but we never suspected plain stupidity.

Steve Spurrier is expected to confirm it himself later Friday when he appears at the SEC media days, but it appears we have an answer on who snubbed Florida's Tim Tebow in the coaches' voting on the preseason All-SEC team.

Alienware is invading a Micro Center located in Paterson, New Jersey. In honor of the event, the Dell-owned company is hosting a LAN party, giving away a fair amount of free swag, and showcasing their various systems on Saturday, July 25.

In the popular game "Grand Theft Auto," players drive virtual cars and intentionally hit pedestrians by smacking them with open car doors. It's called "door checking," and prosecutors say 18-year-old Nathan Hartley decided to try it with a real car last summer.

A DRUNK Romanian thought he'd hit on a good idea to solve his toilet troubles — sticking TWO HAMMERS up his bum.These incredible x-rays show how Viorel Firoiu attempted to nail his severe constipation with the help of his handy tools.

The incident occured on July 9th, shortly after 7 pm. It started at the intersection of Patton Avenue and Leicester Highway. Julie Brown alleges that a driver cut her off, she honked at him and he got out of his car. Brown says he pounded on her vehicle and the driver's side window, then closely followed her.

The Halo news from San Diego's Comic-Con has already been coming in hot and heavy. Late last night the news broke that a Halo anime is in the works, the combined effort of some of the best animation Japan has to offer...

A study released Wednesday by the Pew Hispanic Center shows that the number of Mexican's entering the United States illegally has dropped nearly 40 percent in 2009, and found that nearly 500,000 immigrants already in the country have opted to go back to Mexico rather than try and brave the U.S. economic storm.

11 billion pounds of chicken feather meal are accumulated annually by the poultry industry in the U.S., and if a process developed by scientists in Nevada moves forward, those chicken parts could be used to produce 153 million gallons of biodiesel a year, and 593 million gallons worldwide.

As the summer heat drags on, one Explainer reader wonders why soda or beer from a can tastes so much fizzier than the stuff that comes out of a bottle. Is there really any difference in the carbonation?

'Trapezing' is all about timing and listening and less about strength and flexibility. Some people come just to conquer their wariness of heights...the scared girl in picture definitely makes it worthwhile.

A designer takes on a mighty green building challenge: convert an 1850 Boston home into a superinsulated house as energy efficient as the lofty Passive House standard. Read this blog post by Martin LaMonica on Green Tech.

In a sworn affidavit, a Tennessee state investigator has said Paul Stanley admitted to having a "sexual relationship" with a 22-year-old female intern working in his office, and taking nude pictures of her in "provocative poses" in his apartment.The girl's boyfriend tried to blackmail him. 1994, Stanley's first wife, Judy Martin, filed for a restra

Citizen Kane push the film medium forward, and it was a watershed masterpiece that was hugely innovative from a technical standpoint, hugely influential in film circles and forever altered perceptions of what movies could be. And if those are the criteria for a medium's "Citizen Kane," then what follows are 25 videogames that have done the same.

Apple, for reasons known only to itself, does not report the number of iPod touches it has sold. Nearly 12 million are in the United States, according to a report on the geographical distribution of Apple mobile devices issued by AdMob, the leading mobile ad platform. That makes sense, given that Americans buy the lion's share of all Apple handsets

"It's a new brain. The mammals needed it because they had to cope with parenthood, social interactions, complex cognitive functions. It was so successful an evolution from mouse to man it expanded about a thousand fold in terms of the...